I still wouldn't mind seeing a 1tb flash drive since the main storage drive here already has better then 50% used up being a 1tb model. Just think some day having 2tb stored in your watch pocket which is smaller then the 2.5" SSD size by comparison. Space saving would be the idea.
I saw some show a very long time ago that there is a crystal the size of a sugar cube which holds the entire library of congress (at that time) on it.
I can not find it now, but it has to be around the net somewhere, it was a PBS show or some science channel show, I don't remember exactly.
thats actually called holographic storage...
the crystal is just the medium....:)
but yeah i saw the show too and the effects are astonishing....
as for how big the LoC
according to this its 10tb (all printed material)
but it changes completely if you include A/V according to this which and i qoute
that is a large amount of data...:)LoC blog said:
oh there is a HVD (which is a Holo disc) format which can hold about 500gb (although it may be able to hold 6tb in the future) per disc....
(which is a lot too in a disc...)
There's a point when just about any storage medium will become obsolete. Think back about 10yrs. ago when hard drives saw a maximum capacity of around 2-16gb depending on who manufactured them. WD recently introduced the 2tb model for the desktop while external usb drives were ahead on that size.
If you really go back further then that before the IBM platform what could be labeled ticker tape with punched out holes fed data and storage was at best seen on magnetic tape well before the 5.25" floppy. SSDs are now starting to take the place of hard drives that use magnetic platters.
One of these days you'll see 10,000x1tb stored on something the size of a small watch battery.
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